Below is a summary of your chapter's activities for 1998/99. We have compiled the main features of each chapter meeting along with the winners of various awards, other activities and events which took place outside of regular meetings, the names of persons serving on the executive committee as well as other persons and organizations that played a prominent role in this year's activities.
| Meetings | Officers | Education | Events | Membership |
September 9, 1998 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Sponsors: Metallurgical Associates, Walnut Creek
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley, CA
Speaker: Mike Powers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Santa Rosa, CA, Active Metal Brazing for Electronic Packaging Assembly
Download/view September's Newsletter (pdf document)October 13, 1998 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Sponsor: FTI-Anamet, Hayward
Location: Zio Fraedo's Restaurant, Corner of Gregory Lane and Pleasant Hill Road in Pleasant Hill
Speaker: Philip Rahrig, American Galvanizers Association, Zinc CoatingsNovember 11, 1998 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Sponsor: CalCoast Analytical, Emeryville
Location: Pyramid Breweries, 901 Gillman Street, Berkeley
Speaker: Ben Schiefelbein, Ph.D., R.J. Lee Group, Remote Scanning Electron Microscopy
Download/view November's Newsletter (pdf document)December 1998 - No meeting this month.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Kwaanza, Solstice, Saturnalia, Festivus...
Download/view December's Newsletter (pdf document)January 13, 1999 - Joint Meeting with AWS
Sponsors: KC Metals, San Jose
Location: Franchesco's Restaurant, Hegenberger Road and Pardee Drive in Oakland (near the Oakland Airport)
Speaker: Phil Stolarski, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, Quality Assurance and Seismic Retrofit Programs of the Structural Materials Branch of Caltrans
Download/view January's Newsletter (pdf document)February 1999 - No meeting this month due to the Golden Gate Show, Engineer's Week Banquet.
March 10, 1999 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Sponsor: Allied Engineering and Production Corp., Alameda
Location: Zio Fraedo's Restaurant, Corner of Gregory Lane and Pleasant Hill Road in Pleasant Hill
Speaker: Y. Chung, FTI Anamet, Hayward, California, Microbiologically Influenced (or Induced) Corrosion of Stainless Steels
Download/view March's Newsletter (pdf document)April 14, 1999 - University Student's Night
Sponsor: Newman Flange & Fitting Co.
Location: Pyramid Breweries, 901 Gilman Street, Berkeley
Speaker: Professor Jeffery C. Gibeling, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Low Cycle Fatigue of Particle Strengthened Metals and Composite Materials
Download/view April's Newsletter (pdf document)May 12, 1999 - Community College Student's Night
Sponsor: FTI-Anamet, Hayward
Location: Pyramid Breweries, 901 Gilman Street, Berkeley
Speaker: Andrew Marshall and Tom Bitzer, Hexcel Corp., Honeycombe Cores and their ApplicationsJune 9, 1999 - Spouse's Night, 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Chapter
(See the news item in the Events section)
 | Chair - Lisa Thomas Berkeley Engineering and Research, Berkeley |
| Vice Chair - Gordon Lakso, P.E. Materials and Methods, Lafayette |
| Secretary - Paul Tibbals, P.E. PG&E Metallurgy, Corrosion, Coatings Unit, San Ramon |
| Treasurer - Lisa Thomas Berkeley Engineering and Research, Berkeley |
| Publicity Coordinator - Paul Tibbals, P.E. PG&E Metallurgy, Corrosion, Coatings Unit, San Ramon |
| Membership Coordinator - Rich Seals Consultant, Berkeley |
| Programming Coordinator - Mike Meier, Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Davis |
| Sponsors - Hossein Arbabi, Ph.D., P.E. Testing Engineers, Inc., Oakland |
| Attendance - Rich Stellina, Retired, El Cerrito |
| Nominating - Ken Pytlewski, FTI-Anamet Corp., Hayward |
| Student Affairs Coordinator - Valeska Schroeder and Pushkar Ranade, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley |
| Sacramento Valley Liaison - Mike Meier, Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Davis |
| Career and Cooperative Education Coordinator- Jay Dorst Testing Engineers, Inc., Oakland |
| Long Range Planning - Jerry Fritzke, G.P. Fritzke, Inc., Walnut Creek |
| Representative to the Bay Area Engineer's Council - Chuck Morones, P.E. California Department of Water Resources, Byron |
Chapter Sponsored Course
Introduction to Corrosion, Jerry Fritzke, Metallurgical & Corrosion
Engineer, beginning January 21
NDT Courses, from Douglas Henry, Education Chairman, ASNT Golden Gate Chapter
| Survey of Nondestructive Examination (NDT), Contra Costa College, San Pablo, beginning January 20 |
| Magnetic Particle (MT) & Liquid Penetrant (PT), Contra Costa College, San Pablo, beginning January 20 |
| Ultrasonic Examination, College of San Mateo, beginning January 21 |
| Introduction to NDT, Las Positas College, Livermore, January 16 |
Earl Parker Award - This award is given to the author of the best research paper. This year the award went to David Mitlan at U. C. Berkeley
John Dorn Award: This award is given to a Ph.D. student in the last year of his or her studies. This year the award went to ...
Scholastic Achievement Award
This award is given to outstanding students from U. C. Berkeley and U. C. Davis. This year
awards were given to: Awards were given to Amna Mohammed, Caroline Lau and Inna
Belogolovsky, all from U. C. Berkeley.
Outstanding Community College Student Awards
This award is given to outstanding students in academic and technical programs at
regional community colleges. Two nominations from each school are considered. This year
the awards were given to:
| Diablo Valley College: Fredrick Michael Ingallis and Joe Michael Gray |
| City College of San Francisco: John Mendieta and Dale Sorel |
| Solano Community College: Joel Zimmer and Joseph De La Torre |
| Contra Costa College: Jesse Wood and Louis Davis |
| San Joaquin Delta College: Bryan Natham and Martin Izquierdo |
75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Chapter
The Golden Gate Chapter of ASMI's 75th anniversary was on April 12, 1999. Our
final meeting of the year, in June, celebrated this event. It included a number of
historical materials (yearbooks dating back to 1926) and speakers who had been members of
the chapter for longer than many of us had been alive. There were reminisences of
the early days, of the coming and going of various firms and industries and of freinds and
colleagues present and past. The meeting, held at the World Trade Club in San
Francisco, was a genuinely warm and, historic.
The database at the national office of ASMI shows that we have a total of 533 members, making us one of the largest chapters in the United States. We have analyzed the membership roster and have been able to offer the following breakdown. Membership in our chapter consists of:
| Individual - 376 |
| Life - 131 |
| Retired - 10 |
| Sustaining - 8 |
| Students - 8 |
| Joint Student - 4 |
and among the affiliations (top 10 in terms of number of members) are:
Note that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are administered by the University of California. If we add the number of members from the laboratories to the number of members at the three campuses (UCB, UCD, UCSF) our membership’s largest affiliation by far is with U. C. with 57 members, over 10% of the total. You might also be interested in knowing that according to the chapter membership database provided by National that 50.4% of our members are male, 9.4% are female and the remainder did not specify a gender. Also, 37.9% listed email addresses as compared to 14% in 1997.
Student Chapters
The student chapter at U. C. Berkeley resurrected itself this year while the student
chapter at U. C. Davis has gone dormant. We also have a number of members in several of the
region's community colleges.
Annual Membership Awards: Each year at the end of our season we recognize the various achievements of members from our chapter. This year the following awards were presented during the June meeting:
| 5 Years: William O. Fellers, David J. Aguiar, John O. Hallquist, Benjamin P. Heine, Gregory J. Towers, Stephen J. Burden, Charles D. Downie, Lisa K. Thomas, Gregg Jones, Martin Braun, David M. Farkas. |
| 15 Years: Melva K. Foreman, Eugene V. Huebel, William E. Sandford, David A. Behling, Ali A. Farsheed, Marjorie R. Katin, John H. Li, Chuck Cadden, Cesar A. Zuluaga, Robert E. Haun, David J. Buttner. |
| 25 Years: Donald W. Stevens, Jeffery C. Gibeling, Neville R. Moody, Richard N. Nelson, Steve Paterson, Thomas M. Pong, Thomas L. Read, Margaret L.S. Olsen, Paul H. Tibbals. |
| Life Member: Richard L. Landingham; Guy A. Richardson, Gene Kemper, Jesse Somara, Robert B. Waite, Paul N. Spencer. |
Sustaining Members: Sustaining members are ...
| Conam Nuclear, Inc., Benecia, member since 1964 |
| Coulter Steel and Forge Co., Emeryville, member since 1957 |
| FTI-Anamet Corp., Hayward, member since 1989 |
| Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical, Pleasanton, member since 1957 |
| Primex Technologies, San Leandro, member since 1978 |
| Thermo-Fusion, Inc., Hayward, member since 1984 |
| University of California, Davis, Shields Library, member since 1981 |
| Wyman Gordon Investment Castings, San Leandro Division, San Leandro, member since 1979 |
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